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Monterey pledges to examine leasing losses on Fisherman’s Wharf.
The city of Monterey will hold public hearings this spring on concerns it loses millions of dollars a year by leasing Fisherman’s Wharf property at far below market rates. Last December, City Planning Commissioner Bill ...
Carmel Flares Over Meaning of ‘Final’
Embattled council debates semantics as city administrator remains on the job.
Sparks flew in Carmel at its Feb. 1 council meeting as a debate over the city’s compliance with California’s open meetings law continues to rage. On the morning of the meeting, City Councilman Jason Burnett ...
Dash for Cash
Cities prepare battle plans as state plans to grab local bucks.
Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to eliminate redevelopment agencies as part of his effort to plug a $25 billion budget gap has cities – including at least nine in Monterey County that have such agencies – ...
Cash Crunch
Green Vehicles waiting on promised grant as times get tighter.
Mike Ryan, co-founder of Salinas’s own fledgling electric carmaker, Green Vehicles, sounds a little frustrated. For more than a year, the start-up that moved into Salinas’s old Firestone plant, has waited for state funding to ...
Museum Chief Departs
City still waiting for detailed financial reports.
Embattled Monterey History and Art Museum Executive Director Pam Crowe-Weisberg stepped down last week, says Tom Hood, a local architect and newly elected chair of the Monterey History and Art Association board of directors, which ...
Salinas mulls three new approaches, but dollars could be at issue.
High tech crime fighting is on the agenda at Salinas City Hall, where several dozen city and county officials are invited to a hands-on technology demonstration Jan. 20. Taking center stage is Olympic Behavior Labs ...
Talking Trash
Officials to choose vendor for Johnson Canyon project, but activists cry foul.
Salinas Valleyelected officials are poised to move forwardthis week with new technologies designed to make landfills obsolete. But some environmentalists say, not so fast. Bay Area-based Green Action deployed a half dozen canvassers in Gonzales ...
Mucky Duck Probe
Investigators try to determine what went wrong in death of misidentified man.
More than a week after a Monterey County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team descended on a quiet Greenfield neighborhood to help the Monterey Police Department serve a search warrant, sheriff’s investigators are probing what went wrong ...
Sidewalk Boxing
Light Speed project drawing neighbor complaints.
AT&T’s Project Light Speed, a fiber optic network competing with Comcast for local customers, promises super-fast Internet and cable TV service – but it also deposits clunky metal boxes in public rights-of-way. A three-foot-by-five-foot box ...
Transfer Trials
Districts brace as law allowing students to flee low-performing schools takes effect.
In 2011, a new state law allows kids who attend failing neighborhood schools – as measured by standardized tests – to hop district boundaries and enroll in higher achieving schools beginning next August. The so-called ...
